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"If they try to draw a line in the sand, there is no definitive line".
These works are all about restrictions: impersonal rules which require a quick, definitive line in space in order to complete the task.
But it's not possible to draw a clear and definitive line between "liberals" and "conservatives", let alone "friends" and "enemies" of the "people".
Over at Wapping there has been months of discussions as to how to draw a definitive line under the phone-hacking affair, and how, eventually, a bid for Sky might get through.
IN what may come to be the definitive line about our current economic crisis, Warren Buffett said on the CNBC program "Squawk Box" this month that the United States economy has "fallen off a cliff".
"The only positive note is that the end of the relationship with Allegri allows us to draw a definitive line under it and we can dedicate ourselves to the future of Cagliari through the choice of a new coach".
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It was only at the beginning of the 4th century bce, however, that the principal types of Classical Greek higher education became organized on definitive lines.
As Walsh said, biology feeds culture feeds biology feeds culture, so it's difficult to draw definitive lines around something so amorphous.
Mahathir's defence of Malay rights focused both on the "definitive people" line of reasoning and the argument in favour of affirmative action, which the Reid Commission had chosen: "It is not... for reasons of Malay superiority that preferential treatment for Malays in scholarship awards was insisted upon..
"So we've attempted to establish a definitive boundary line setting forth the responsibilities of the co-op and those of the shareholder".
Or they might choose to draw a definitive bold line, disregarding any territorial disputes or deliberately taking one side or the other.
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